European Cancer Congress

Nivolumab reduced the risk of death by 27% versus everolimus in patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma, improving overall survival by 5.4 months.

Second-line treatment with cabozantinib reduced the risk of progression or death by 42% compared with everolimus in patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma.

Viktor Grünwald, MD, PhD, an attending physician at the Hannover Medical School, discusses tumor remission in patients with renal cell carcinoma (RCC).

Daniel J. George, MD, director, GU Oncology, Duke Cancer Institute, discusses the use of sunitinib to treat patients with renal cell carcinoma (RCC).

D. Ross Camidge, MD, PhD, director, Thoracic Oncology Clinical Program, University of Colorado Cancer Center, discusses the updated results of a first-in-human dose-finding study of the ALK/EGFR inhibitor AP26113 in patients with advanced malignancies.

Dovitinib failed to meet the primary endpoint of improving progression-free survival versus sorafenib (Nexavar) in patients with heavily pretreated progressive renal cell carcinoma

A new biomarker panel taken 12 weeks after initiating treatment with abiraterone acetate plus prednisone can predict prognosis at 2 years in men with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer

Trebananib added to paclitaxel significantly improved progression-free survival in patients with recurrent ovarian cancer compared with placebo plus paclitaxel in the large international TRINOVA-1 trial.

Manuela Schmidinger, MD, medical oncologist, Medical University of Vienna, discusses the management of side effects from targeted agents in renal cell cancer, including hypertension, diarrhea, and hand-foot syndrome.

Takayuki Yoshino, MD, medical oncologist, National Cancer Center Hospital East, Chiba, Japan, discusses U3-1565 and TAS-102, two agents used to treat colorectal cancer.

Results from a pooled analysis of data from 12 studies has demonstrated a long-term survival benefit that extends through at least 10 years for patients with advanced melanoma treated with ipilimumab.

Lucio Crinò, MD, discusses the results of the PROFILE 1007 trial that compared crizotinib with standard chemotherapy as second-line therapy for advanced ALK+ non-small cell lung cancer

A post-hoc analysis of the VELOUR trial demonstrated additional improvements in both overall survival and progression-free survival in favor of aflibercept plus FOLFIRI in patients with metastatic colorectal cancer

Clifford A. Hudis, MD, ASCO president, chief, Breast Cancer Medicine Service, attending physician, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, comments on exploratory biomarker observations from the BOLERO-3 trial.

Breast cancer patients with PI3KCA mutations are less likely to achieve a pathological complete response from dual HER2 blockade in the neoadjuvant setting.

Co-targeting metastatic castrate resistant prostate cancer with the combination of enzalutamide plus abiraterone acetate may circumvent the compensatory mechanisms observed with either agent alone and lead to more profound suppression of androgen signaling.

Viktor Grünwald, MD, PhD, from the Hannover Medical School, discusses a phase III trial that compared dovitinib to sorafenib for patients with mRCC following prior treatment with one VEGF inhibitor and one mTOR inhibitor.

D. Ross Camidge, MD, PhD, Director, Thoracic Oncology Clinical Program, University of Colorado Cancer Center, discusses a phase I study looking at AZD9291 in patients with non-small cell lung cancer.

The first-in-human phase I/II dose-finding study of a novel ALK/EGFR inhibitor called AP26113 demonstrated promising results in both crizotinib-resistant and crizotinib-naïve patients with non-small cell lung cancer.

Cetuximab plus FOLFIRI may offer a survival advantage over FOLFIRI plus bevacizumab in the first-line treatment of patients with KRAS wild-type metastatic colorectal cancer who do not have RAS mutations.

Daniel J. George, MD, Director, GU Oncology, Duke Cancer Institute, discusses critical phase III clinical trials in metastatic renal cell carcinoma.

Exploratory analysis of biomarkers in the BOLERO-3 trial suggests that the addition of everolimus to trastuzumab plus vinorelbine for HER2-positive advanced breast cancer may be most beneficial in patients with low PTEN or high pS6 levels.

Panitumumab proved noninferior to cetuximab in extending overall survival in patients with chemorefractory KRAS wild-type metastatic colorectal cancer.

A phase I study has shown remarkable and durable responses with the engineered monoclonal antibody MPDL3280A in metastatic non-small cell lung cancer, including tumors with squamous and adenocarcinoma histology.

T-DM1 extended progression-free survival compared with "physician's choice of treatment" in women with metastatic HER2-positive breast cancer.